Annabel Dover

Annabel Dover is a British artist based in Suffolk who works across painting, photography, video, cyanotype and drawing, exploring social relationships mediated through objects. She was born in 1975 in Liverpool and educated in Newcastle and London, gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Newcastle University (1998), an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2002) and a PGCE in Art & Design from the University of Cambridge (2003). She completed a practice-led PhD at Chelsea College of Art (University of the Arts London), researching the cyanotype albums of the botanist and photographer Anna Atkins.

Dover has exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions include Trace and Nostalgia at Persimmon Gallery, Los Angeles (2006); the Streaming Film Festival, The Hague, and Whistlejacket at CoExist, Southend (2010); and Unstable Ground at Paper Gallery, Manchester, and News from Nowhere at Kelmscott House, London (2014). Her residencies include Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (2013), the Aldeburgh International Poetry Festival, and the British School at Athens, where she was the first recipient of its Arts Bursary and Residency.

The Imperial War Museum acquired a set of her cyanotypes in 2013, and her work is also held in the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st-Century British Painting and the University of the Arts London collection; Museum of my Mother Kate was acquired by the Foundling Museum in 2024. Her cyanotypes feature in Carol Mavor's Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour and in Art from Contemporary Conflict (2015). Her debut novel, Florilegia, was published by Cool Moist Books in 2021. She has lectured in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art and tutors at the Open College of the Arts.